Mondays

an idea on which
people project their
fantasies and aspirations

Mondays

A fusion of ecstasy and the worst mood

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is "Madchester." Admitting you never heard of the word indicates that you, like me, were musically unhip in the 80s.

heavenly

outdoors,
in a Heavenly state

I can taste
the memory of Summer
& more

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The appropriate OED word of the day, with leftovers on the menu, for the erasure poem| commentary is "s'more."

Today's factoid from the Balboa Park ranger is that there is only one palm species native to San Diego County. It is not pictured here :)

sci-fi

in a different cosmos
Nothing Is Always Absolute
and everything on the Internet
is really good —

we like sci-fi

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The OED word of the day for the erasure commentary is 'Sturgeon's Law.'

750 poems

750 Poems
To loll away the day,
To look at Life and
Listen in the night
and fan the flow,
Day by Day

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The OED word of the day for this 750th poem | commentary is 'punkah.'

the Dance

an abstract pattern,
imperfect, fleeting

as our senses grasp
the Dance

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After ridiculously brief ones, today's OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'idea.'  About 9,989 words erased!

umbrellas

hot and sunny to
cool and rainy —
same umbrellas
different function

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The OED word of the day is 'misdeedy,' with about four words in two citations, so unusable for a poem, but very usable to describe today: rain in San Diego is misdeedy.

sketching

sketching alongside
a busking saxophonist —
double the grooves

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The OED word of the day was sabermetrics. There may be poetry in baseball, but a distinct lack of it in this word.

The first of what will probably be many sketches from Balboa Park.